Re: Roadmap Review - My Questions

"Brion L. Webster" wrote:
I.P. Nichols wrote:

Well before shhing me and telling me you would never espouse such a thing
as if it were illegal and unethical, let us remember the exact context of
my suggestion - you were expressing a real fear that sometime in the
future you wouldn't be able to activate and register an older fully
licensed legal version of Delphi because the activation and registration
service had been discontinued.

I *did* intend for some sarcasm to slip in there, it wasn't supposed to be
a personal insult. But it appears it came across that way. I'm sorry.

I didn't take it as intentionally derogative or a personal insult but since
it does seem to imply that I was recommending a shady practice I wanted to
get out front just in case someone wanted to brand me as advocating software
piracy.

On the other hand, I can not advise my employer or any other company to
depend on technically illegal solutions to this dilemma.

I would argue that under the specific circumstances I posted it could hardly
be judged either illegal or unethical. You bought an license and thus have a
legal right to run the program and if the licensor at some time in the
future takes an action that makes it impossible for you to use the program
as intended, you have a good faith right to take reasonable measures to
mitigate that action - and how better to do that than an activation cracker.

This is the sort of thing that cause customers to sometimes bring class
action lawsuits against vendors to either force them to reverse harmful
actions or pay compensation.



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